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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ancestral Quest updates program for FamilySearch Family Tree

Ancestral Quest, the genealogical database program from Incline Software, formally announced its compliance with all of the requirements to be FamilySearch.org Certified for Tree Share, Sources, Discussions, Change History and LDS Support. As I mentioned in a previous post, this brings the total number of completely certified programs to three.

In a press release dated 16 November 2013, the President of Incline Software, Gaylon Findlay stated:

Ancestral Quest meets the rigorous standards set by FamilySearch for allowing its users to work in FamilySearch Family Tree (hereinafter referred to as Family Tree) by sharing not only data, but documentation, discussions and reasons for making changes. This not only helps users of AQ participate as good neighbors in Family Tree, but allows them to benefit from the comments and findings of others as they record their own personal family history in their AQ or PAF file.

Ancestral Quest allows users to search Family Tree for matching records and exchange facts for individuals and relationships between their own file and Family Tree. It also allows comparing of families and exchanging of family members between their personal file and Family Tree. Users can improve the data on Family Tree by sharing their research, and can learn more about their own family by looking through the Family Treedata made available by others. For LDS users, AQ handles the processes of reserving and tracking the progress of LDS ordinances.

Ancestral Quest has always provided the easiest upgrade path for those genealogists still using the old, now discontinued, Personal Ancestral File program. As stated in the Press Release:

Ancestral Quest can directly update a PAF file, thus AQ provides PAF users with the ability to share data with Family Tree, including sources, notes and LDS ordinance information. Even though PAF has been discontinued as a supported product by FamilySearch, we understand that there are millions who still use PAF and can benefit from this capability. AQ is the only FamilySearch Tree Share certified product that provides this share capability for PAF users. And because the Windows versions of PAF were derived from AQ, PAF users will feel right at home as they use Ancestral Quest.

In addition to English, Ancestral Quest is also available in German, French, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. You can learn more about Incline Software, Ancestral Quest, and Ancestral Quest Basics, by visiting www.ancquest.com or calling Incline Software at 1-800-825-8864.